The Beggars at Sant Felieux
my own little separatist movement
on the stone bridge crossing to the medieval side
a man with a plastic cup, not asking, simply a fact.
At the door of the cathedral, the man explains to you
this door will do--his cup full of Euro coins, odd bald
headed men on obverse faces--copper,
precious, toward the interior, full of saints
locked into scenes of perpetual suffering, pricked
with arrows, drizzled over flame
officially worse-off than the crone
yesterday outside la Sagrada Familia
explaining in four languages
that she is good--
the hefty clank
of metal on her blessed palm
distracts me as the Spanish girls
stand around in miniskirts.
Published by Crawdad Nelson
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Post a Commentfantastic piece
I'm addicted to reading your poetry. Such vivid images and sense of place, etc.